One text, 2 sources · Trismegistos-Text 23821

Receipt of Phileas for green fodder from the landowner Sarmates TM 23821Oasis Parva403 - 413 (?)

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A short receipt in which the farmer Phileas acknowledges receiving from his landowner Sarmates a quantity of something for green fodder. It comes from the Small Oasis (Bahariya) and dates to the early 5th century AD.

In English machine translation

To Sarmates, his own landowner, Isak, (?) Phileas, farmer, greetings. I have received from you for green fodder […] and a half …

The name Isak in the first line is restored, and the amount received is lost apart from the fraction one half. Chlorophagia refers to green fodder for animals.

Working translation of the DDbDP edition, made with Claude Opus 5.5 from the edition and the catalogue records shown below (catalogued as Futterquittung). It has not been reviewed by a papyrologist: check the edition before citing. Restorations follow the edition; […] marks lost text and (?) an uncertain reading.

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Papyri.info — DDbDP (Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri) — text · 403 - 413 (?) · Oasis Parva

Σαρμάτῃ ἰδίῳ γεούχῳ Ἰσὰκ Φιλήας γεωργὸς χαίρειν ἀπέσχον παρὰ σοῦ εἰς χλωροφαγίας […] ἡμίσους ……